Differential RNA elongation controls the variant surface glycoprotein gene expression sites of Trypanosoma brucei
Open Access
- 1 April 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 36 (2) , 328-340
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01844.x
Abstract
The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei develops antigenic variation to escape the immune response of its host. To this end, the trypanosome genome contains multiple telomeric expression sites comp...Keywords
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